Tim Ferriss Opens Up: What I Do In A Day, Unfair Advantages & The "Barbell Strategy"

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Episode 576: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Tim Ferriss ( https://twitter.com/tferriss ) to talk about his latest lifestyle experiments and how to spend a perfect 24-hours. Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5 — Show Notes: (0:00) Tim’s "What's next?" framework (7:22) Creativity gyms + why money doesn't buy happiness (12:11) Book Recommendation: The New Toughness Training for Sports (15:51) Tim Ferriss's perfectly optimized day (23:06) The art of podcasting (32:03) From selling supplements to published author (38:42) Law of Category (42:23) Barbell strategy for Youtube (54:12) What would it look like if it was easy? (56:14) What is Tim's unfair advantage? (59:47) What silly story are we telling ourselves? (1:02:23) Stories about Naval — Links: • Tim’s blog - https://tim.blog/ • Tim’s books - https://tim.blog/tim-ferriss-books/ • “The New Toughness Training for Sports” - https://tinyurl.com/nhh6m4px • “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing” - https://tinyurl.com/2bmz43ve • 1,000 True Fans - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ • Blue Ocean Strategy - https://tinyurl.com/5739vvry — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	By the way, this episode, where's the camera?
0:03.0	This is, this episode is not for you, this episode is for me.
0:06.0	I've been listening to this guy for a long time, I read his books.
0:08.0	I used to gift, your book was one of the most gifted books I had for like a long time,
0:12.0	maybe the first 10 years of my career. Thank you. Thank you. Your book was one of the most gifted books I had for like a long time,
0:12.5	maybe the first 10 years of my career.
0:14.3	And I would say, you're about, I'm giving you the four hour fever.
0:17.4	They're like, it's called the four hour work week.
0:19.0	You're gonna read this.
0:19.6	And then for four hours, you're gonna question everything in your life.
0:21.7	I called out the four hour fever.
0:22.8	It's normal.
0:23.2	Don't worry.
0:23.7	Call a Dr. Fick.
0:24.6	Last beyond four hours.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:28.3	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:30.3	I know I could be what I want to
0:37.8	I put my all in it like no days off on the road. Let's travel never looking back And so today I have like a bunch of things that I think maybe the audience wants to know
0:41.6	Honestly, I don't give a shit. I just wanted to ask you the questions that I think maybe the audience will know, honestly, I don't give a shit.
0:43.0	I just wanted to ask you the questions that I want to know.
0:45.0	I think that's the key to a good podcast.
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